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Florida Real Estate Licensing Requirements
How to Get Your Florida Sales Associate License
Non-licensed individuals and persons licensed as real estate Sales
Associates in NON-mutual recognition states. See
Mutual Recognition below.
Qualifications:
- Eighteen
years of age or older
- Mentally competent
- Possess a high school diploma or its equivalent
- Apply for the state licensing examination
- Successfully complete a FREC-approved 63-hour Sales Associate Pre-license
course, either in classroom or online
- Score a minimum of 75% on the state licensing examination
For more information click here to view the DBPR's website.
How to obtain your Florida Broker or Broker Associate License
Florida-licensed Sales Associates AND Real Estate Sales Associates or
Brokers licensed in other states (non-mutual recognition states)
or jurisdictions.
Qualifications:
- Hold an active Florida Sales Associate license OR an active Sales Associate
license or a current and valid Broker license from another state or jurisdiction for
a minimum of 2 years in the preceding 5 years
- Newly licensed
Florida Sales Associates must fulfill the sales associate post-licensing
education requirement before being eligible to obtain a broker license
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Apply for the state licensing examination
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Successfully complete a FREC-approved 72-hour Broker Pre-license course,
either in classroom or online
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Score a minimum of 75% on the Florida Sales Associate licensing
examination
Effective July 1, 2008 a new law changed the experience requirement.
From that date forward, broker applicants must have held an
active Sales Associate license for 2 years during the last 5
years. The previous experience requirement was 1 year
during the last 5 years.
For more information click here to view the DBPR's website.
Mutual Recognition
Sales Associates and Brokers licensed in states that ARE mutual recognition
states.
Qualifications for an equivalent type license:
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Eighteen years of age or older
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Possess a high school diploma or its equivalent
- NOT be a resident of Florida at the time of application
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Score a minimum of 75% on the 40-question Florida-specific real estate
law examination
- Hold
a current, valid, and active license in good standing in the mutual
recognition state
Florida has
entered into Mutual Recognition agreements with 9 states: Alabama, Arkansas,
Connecticut, *Georgia, Indiana,
*Mississippi,
Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
*Licensees
from these states cannot claim mutual recognition if they obtained their
license, in the mutual recognition state, by reciprocity.
There are additional requirements for licensees from Alabama,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
For more information click here to view the DBPR's website.
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